Claim:
A video authentically shows a woman wearing a hijab in a school classroom instructing white British children to bow and say “Allahu Akbar.”
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A rumor that circulated online in November 2025 claimed a video authentically showed a woman, apparently a teacher, wearing a hijab in a school classroom instructing white British children to bow and say “Allahu Akbar” (typically translated as “God is greater”).
For example, on Nov. 7, one X user posted the video, depicting a surveillance-camera-style angle, and added (archived), “Young, white children are being indoctrinated into Islam. They raise their hands in the air and chant Allah Akbar. This has to stop.”
(@DaveAtherton20/X)
Other users also shared the video on Facebook, X (archived) and YouTube.
In short, the video supposedly showing the woman instructing children to bow and say “Allahu Akbar” was fake and generated with an artificial-intelligence (AI) tool.
A reverse-image search found the earliest posting of the clip on the British Scope – UK Facebook page. That original video displayed numerous signs of its AI origins, in particular including the woman’s severely disfigured-looking face — a common AI mistake for distant subjects. Also, the AI tool did not leave room for a prayer rug, or sajjada, for the third child from the left in the lower portion of the clip. A red rug appears off to the left with no child using it. Further, the woman teaching the children appears to sit down on a chair, stool or other item — not visible from the camera angle — instead of continuing to show the children her bow.
This inauthentic video, as well as many others, appeared on the Facebook page amid reports of new polling allegedly indicating tensions between Britons and migrants had risen to an all-time high.
Snopes contacted the page to ask about their AI-generated videos, as well as why they sought to regularly share content negatively and inauthentically depicting Black migrants and people of the Islam faith. We will update this story if we receive further information.
Digging into the rumor
Around the beginning of November, the owner or owners of the British Scope – UK Facebook page began featuring fake, AI-generated videos — many lasting between eight and 15 seconds — depicting Black migrants in small boats and people who practice Islam declaring the U.K. would belong to them. Other AI-created videos showed a Black migrant stalking a woman at the woman’s front door, military members and police officers saying they’re powerless to stop migrants from coming into the country and young white girls crying and expressing fear of migrants. Another fake video also showed a similar classroom setting in which a woman instructed children to pray and say “Allahu Akbar.”
On Nov. 7, one of the Facebook page’s owners incorrectly claimed some of their videos weren’t created with AI. They posted (archived), “Think these videos are just AI? They’re not. They show a reality you can’t see — and by the time you do, it’ll be too late.”
(British Scope – UK/Facebook)
While our review of the Facebook page’s videos mostly found no information about the AI tool used to create the clips, one video in particular, depicting an old man speaking to a news reporter, displayed a watermark for the MindVideo AI video generation website. That one 15-second video’s watermark indicated a slip-up by its creator, who mistakenly forgot to remove the watermark — a dead giveaway of its AI origins.
(British Scope – UK/Facebook)
For further reading, a previous fact check examined a claim alleging a video showed “extremely offended” Muslims attacking a Christmas tree.
